You know what would be awesome? If penguins lived at the North Pole! Then Santa's Grottos could include penguins in the display, and really fancy ones could even have real penguins, and that'd be great. Imagine if you could see penguins at the mall!

(bump because recent "counting" threads have clogged the first page) Fail. It's really cold today. Pass. It's really really cold today. Fail. Due to the difficulty of finding passing examples (although I did design the new rule with accidentally passing being easier in mind), what do you ...

Your favourite singer is a YouTuber. On the one hand, I hate saying anything is my "favorite", I simply like things or dislike things. While the intensity of my enjoyment is variable from singer to singer, I still can't usually pick out a favorite because A) Intensity of Enjoyment measure...

I had suspected that every ten posts people would pass by accident, but then someone posted a non-zero number of the assigned letter, which failed them. Heh. If the round had gone on long enough, I'm not sure how I would have evaluated post# 260, which would have been required to contain exactly zer...

But "I know how to stay alert" also seems to be an infinitive. Is there a grammatical term that distinguishes the "know how to" with "know to"? Or... wait, I guess "know to" would be one infinive, and "how to" would be a different infinitive, so &quo...

It's hard to keep a thriving community when the members are stagnant. It's hard to get new members when the main website doesn't have any indication whatsoever that the forum exists. Allow me to add my voice to the complaint. "It went away when we rearranged some things on the site, and I can't...

Hm. Cumulative scores, or not? Squaring implies wanting cumulative scores, but I think it might be more fun to only compare recent scores. Perhaps as a compromise, the score could be cumulative for the past N streaks, but no further back? It should also keep track of the highest scoring streak on re...

It looks to me that the teams are abstract entities that do not necessarily have hard and fast real people members. The teams gain points depending on the content of the thread, provided by real people, but real people do not actually belong to either team. That said, you may perhaps be a fan of one...

The film xXx, starring Vin Diesel, did well in the box office but not among critics. Pass. "This sentence posesses the property of which I am looking for." Fail. Victor Zsasz, of the Batman franchise, is a zany murderer with zero tolerance for puzzles. This post's result returns "Und...

Testing, one, two, three. Pass errr... technically fail. I don't mind telling you that this is an edge case, but I think you're at least thinking in the right kinds of directions. Answer is it passes if it contains at least one word whose first letter matches the post number in the thread (this...

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed...

I have no idea how to test a changing puzzle. Fail. It is tricky, yes. :) If three people request it (you and two others), I'll tell you the variable that changes between posts, but I think it can be discovered. Edit: Here's another good spot to give you an interesting one that succeeds. Queen Quel...

It's a real game of chicken. It's a forum equivelent of a mexican standoff... all staring at each other, wondering who is going to pull the trigger first, but all wanting to delay as long as possible...

Here's something that may give you food for thought. All of the following are individual experiments, not a single combined one. "This sentence posesses the property of which I am looking for." Fail. Can you create a capable explanation? Fail. 'Zendo alpha snorlax the' are just some random...

You sure do have a lot of points, and you haven't even cashed in... I'm amazed your posts added up that high in a merely linear fashion. I suspect that the taboo-word-sayers will overtake us pretty quickly though. Although, given how quick they are to pull the trigger, it's possible that non-taboo-s...

It occured to me that maybe I could have posted my Forum Zendo game to this forum instead of the Games forum. Regardless, maybe some puzzlers here that wouldn't normally go into the Games forum would be interested in my Zendo thread? http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?p=4091751 It's a puzzle, althou...

The trolley problem tries to pride itself on asking a question that it doesn't necessarily ask... "what is the role of action vs passivity in morality". But the problem I have is that it's not just "an action", they actual type of action matters! Earlier in this thread, a number ...